Euphemistic Quotes

#1. It seemed a bit euphemistic to call a murder an incident, almost as if it were in the same category as a purse snatching.

Joyce Tremel

#2. A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.

Beverly Jenkins

#3. If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

Mila Kunis

#4. When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#5. Be careful that you don't judge success by what people look like, what they have done, or by mistakes they have made.

Dwight Bain

#6. Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

Francoise Mouly

#7. Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#8. He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Jonathan Edwards

#9. I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

Christy Turlington

#10. The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.

Annette Dumbach

#11. Third child in that suburban dream of his, now at the front

Liane Moriarty

#12. The truth was, Roger and I hadn't been close since Dad's trial. Maybe that was a euphemistic way of putting it. I didn't like the guy, and he didn't like me either. We barely tolerated each other.

Joseph Finder

#13. Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

George Carlin

#14. The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

William Bennett

#15. Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

Matthew Specktor

#16. The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Albert J. Nock

#17. Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

Steven Pinker